Robber Injures Woman, 83
by | Feb 13, 2022 6:31 pm | Comments (5)
An 83-year-old woman suffered a “serious hip injury” when a man tried to mug her at Hamden Plaza.
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FBI Whistleblower Straddles Thin Blue Li(n)e
by | Feb 11, 2022 2:01 pm | Comments (2)
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Whistleblower author Greg Dillon at WNHH FM.
Greg Dillon proudly wore a cop-solidarity “thin blue line” face mask when Covid-19 hit.
At the same time he was working a book about how he watched the cop-solidarity “thin blue line” lead to corruption and cover-ups in law enforcement.
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Hard-Luck Tenant Hustles To Stay Put
by | Feb 11, 2022 10:18 am | Comments (8)
Lucas McClendon: It's been a tough year.
A spate of bad health and worse luck led to Lucas McClendon falling behind on rent at his Sherman Avenue apartment.
Now he’s scrambling to catch up and stay in place as his building’s new owner — an affiliate of the local megalandlord Mandy Management – seeks to kick him out.
Town Takes High Bazaar To Court
by | Feb 10, 2022 2:37 pm | Comments (11)
Organizer Joseph Accettullo with cease-and-desist order: Show will go on "every fucking week."
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Undaunted High Bazaar crew Wednesday.
Hamden has filed a court order to shut down the “High Bazaars” that have been attracting hundreds of people to town each weekend for a commercial cannabis carnival for the past six months.
Undaunted, the organizing crew was already scrambling to move the gathering to a new location in time to reassemble this weekend, without missing a beat.
Eviction Of Hospitalized Tenant, 74, Upheld
by | Feb 9, 2022 5:17 pm | Comments (8)
A state judge gave a 74-year-old tenant until the end of the month to move her belongings out of her Fair Haven Heights apartment, while her daughter seeks to relocate her mom from the hospital and into a nursing home.
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Yale Hires 3 Officers From Hamden, Woodbridge
by | Feb 9, 2022 8:38 am | Comments (2)
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Yale Police Chief Ronnell Higgins at Tuesday night's city Police Commission meeting.
City police commissioners signed off on the Yale Police Department’s request to poach three police officers from Hamden and Woodbridge.
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Judge Pauses Eviction Amid Rent-Relief Qs
by | Feb 8, 2022 8:26 pm | Comments (3)
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Housing court Judge John Cirello.
A Quinnipiac Meadows tenant struggling with a “serious mental illness” has 30 days to iron out their UniteCT application to avoid eviction — as a landlord’s attorney warned that the state rent-relief program may soon be running out of cash.
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Crash Kills Man; Pregnant Woman Extricated From Car In 2nd Incident
by | Feb 8, 2022 11:48 am | Comments (19)
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Aftermath of Sherman Parkway crash.
Aftermath of Central-Chapel crash.
A Hamden man died Monday from injuries suffered in a car crash at Chapel Street and Central Avenue, one of two collisions in New Haven that required fire rescue crews to extricate trapped victims.
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144 More Apts. Planned For Westville
by | Feb 7, 2022 2:39 pm | Comments (14)
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Attorney Jim Segaloff: Westville has potential to become "a significantly vital and vibrant community."
Another 144 new apartments are planned for Westville Village, according to a rezoning application recently submitted to the Board of Alders by the owners of an existing three-story office building on Blake Street.
Another Cop Placed On Leave Amid Domestic Violence Investigation
by and | Feb 3, 2022 4:22 pm | Comments (12)
A 20-year veteran cop has been placed on leave amid another case involving alleged domestic violence.
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City Police Obtain Arrest Warrant For 2019 Homicide
by | Feb 3, 2022 4:15 pm | Comments (2)
Angela Hester-McCray: "Justice, as far as I'm concerned, has been served."
City police have obtained an arrest warrant for the man who allegedly shot and killed Curtis McCray Jr. two-and-a-half years ago — and, thanks to a new interagency partnership focusing on unsolved homicides from 2020 and 2021, they hope to have more murder arrests coming soon.
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Grand Café Denied Liquor Permit Renewal
by | Feb 3, 2022 4:05 pm | Comments (6)
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Kica Matos and Moviemiento Cultural lead bomba drum circle at protest outside Grand Café.
Fair Haven neighbors prevailed.
Discovery Puts Housing Law In Limbo
by | Feb 3, 2022 12:57 pm | Comments (28)
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300-unit apartment complex under construction on Union Street in Wooster Square. Under new law, buildings like these would have to set aside affordable apts. Or not?
Uh oh.
That was the prevailing sentiment Wednesday night when City Plan Commissioners realized that — perhaps — the city’s new “inclusionary zoning” law may not do what it’s supposed to do.
Wine Thief Sues To Stop High Competitor
by | Feb 2, 2022 4:58 pm | Comments (21)
Too close for Southern Comfort? Crown Street's Wine Thief.
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Michael Hendrix: "Doesn't bother me" if another liquor store opens.
A Crown Street “package” store is taking the city and a downtown landlord to court, in a bid to squelch new booze-dispensing competition from opening two blocks away at the corner of High Street.
Arrested Cop Pleads Not Guilty In Immigrant-Sex Case
by | Feb 2, 2022 12:46 pm | Comments (0)
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Arrested Officer Christopher Troche and attorney Rosemarie Paine in state court Wednesday.
A New Haven police officer who was arrested for allegedly pressuring an undocumented 19-year-old Honduran immigrant to send him nude photographs and have sex with him in exchange for money entered a pro forma not guilty plea Wednesday — as state prosecutors and the officer’s defense attorney prepare to review a trove of evidence provided by the city police department.
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New Sgts. Sworn In, Commit To Community
by | Feb 2, 2022 10:09 am | Comments (0)
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Cherelle Carr with sister Shenae at Tuesday's promotional ceremony.
As she and her colleagues took the oath to become New Haven police sergeants, Cherelle Carr thought back to when she almost went to school to be a lawyer.
LLC Landlord-Outing Effort Advances
by | Feb 2, 2022 9:35 am | Comments (9)
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LCI on the job on Shelton Avenue.
A plan to require limited-liability-company landlords to provide the city with the name and contact information for an actual, live, flesh-and-blood human being — and not just corporate names stacked on top of one another — won a preliminary vote, as the city strives to make it easier to get a hold of property owners during maintenance emergencies.
Settlement Cuts Dumper A 90% Break
by | Jan 31, 2022 5:06 pm | Comments (4)
82 Crestway: Soon to be "paradise"?
A business owner who racked up hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines has reached a court settlement with the town of Hamden — and has an opportunity to restore an industrial property covered in illegally dumped waste back into the home of Paradise Landscaping.
Affidavit: Cop Grabbed, Threw, Choked Fellow-Cop Girlfriend
by | Jan 31, 2022 2:33 pm | Comments (16)
A 31-year-old New Haven police officer was arraigned in state court Monday on three domestic-violence charges stemming from his alleged beating up and choking of his girlfriend — who is also a New Haven police officer — during a late-night dispute.
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Tenants Facing Eviction Now Get Lawyers
by | Jan 31, 2022 9:11 am | Comments (14)
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Elizabeth Rosenthal: This could "change the frame of eviction court."
The first phase of Connecticut’s Right to Counsel program rolls out on Monday, guaranteeing tenants in select zip codes access to legal representation in eviction court.
Officer Arrested On Domestic Violence Charges
by | Jan 29, 2022 9:10 am | Comments (3)
A seven-year city police veteran was arrested Friday on three domestic-violence charges in North Branford.
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Judge Rules For 1st Amendment
by | Jan 27, 2022 2:37 pm | Comments (2)
A federal judge handed down a ringing endorsement of the First Amendment and open courts in rejecting a bid by five local nonprofits controlled by imprisoned Rabbi Daniel Greer to keep their legal business secret.
Hamden Roundup: Dog-Walker, 76, Struck, Robbed; Fire Displaces 10
by | Jan 27, 2022 11:32 am | Comments (2)
Two masked men came up behind a man when he returned home from walking his dog, struck him in the head, then ran off with his wallet.
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Biden Taps Newhallville Native For U.S. Attorney
by | Jan 26, 2022 4:28 pm | Comments (11)
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President Biden has nominated Newhallville native Vanessa Avery to serve as Connecticut’s next top federal prosecutor.
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1-Month Deadline Set On Yeshiva Foreclosure
by | Jan 26, 2022 2:49 pm | Comments (0)
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Greer company-owned yeshiva building: Worth $6.5M, according to city. Worth $620K, according to court.
A nonprofit controlled by imprisoned Rabbi Daniel Greer has less than a month to scrounge up $620,000 to pay the convicted sex offender’s victim and retain control of the historic yeshiva building at the corner of Elm Street and Norton Street.
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